Our Man in Havana (1959, b/w)

FILM4, 2.40PM

Wormold, a salesman in Havana, reluctantly agrees to spy for MI6 to fund the extravagances of his daughter, Milly, and ends up inventing reports when he can’t find anything out. Carol Reed directs Alec Guinness, Maureen O’hara and Noël Coward in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s farce, set against a backdrop of political instability, with Cuba teetering on the brink of Fidel Castro’s revolución.